Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 2
His face goes the colour of a tomato and his voice wobbles, but he says what he saw.
Who acts: face, voice · What happens: go, wobble, say, see · To what, where: colour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tomato | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tomato | det |
| 8 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colour | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wobbles | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wobbles | nsubj |
| 12 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 saw | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | hand's face | the colour of a tomato | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wobble | present | hand's voice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | past | voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:2.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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